Wilhelm Werlé

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The bust of the Wilhelm Werlé monument

Wilhelm Werlé (born September 26, 1804 ; † August 28, 1880 ) was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , entrepreneur, city councilor in Barmen and co-founder of the Barmer Beautification Association .

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Wilhelm Werlé lived in Barmen from 1836. Although he was a Catholic himself, he married into a respected Protestant family from Barmen. From 1840 to 1846 he was an alderman and then until 1875 a city councilor in the city council of Barmen. In 1846 he founded the “Barmer Gas Enlightenment Society”, of which he was chairman until his death. In 1848 he was a deputy in the Frankfurt pre-parliament . From 1856 to 1862 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for Waldbröl . Here he belonged to the faction of the old liberals .

On December 8, 1864, he founded the Barmer Beautification Association together with Robert Barthels , Emil Blank , August Engels , Friedrich von Eynern , Johann Wilhelm Fischer , Friedrich Wilhelm Ostermann , Carl Theodor Rübel , Adolf Schlieper , Oskar Schuchard , Emil Wemhöner , and he was chairman was to his death.

In addition, Werlé was active in the poor administration and on the board of the "Institute for Abandoned Children".

Honors

Wilhelm Werlé was an honorary citizen of the city of Barmen .

Shortly before the first anniversary of his death, the Wilhelm Werlé memorial was inaugurated on August 21, 1881 in the Barmer grounds . It consists of a bust on a two-meter-high granite base that rests on a three-tiered base. The bust was made by Bernhard Afinger , a Berlin sculptor, while Werlé was still alive .

In the district of Wuppertal Heckinghausen is Werléstraße named after Wilhelm Werlé.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Werlé  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Wilhelm Werlé Memorial in Wuppertal [1] at www.denkmal-wuppertal.de, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ On the history of the Barmer Verschönerungsverein [2] on www.barmer-anlagen.de, accessed on February 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertaler street names , Thales-Verlag Essen 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
personal data
SURNAME Werlé, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Prussian House of Representatives, entrepreneur, city councilor in Barmen and co-founder of the Barmer Beautification Association
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1804
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1880